Things to do in Gengma

Dongjing Buddhist Temple

Mengding South Asia Folk Customs Tourist Zone

Gengma Zongfo Temple

Gengma General Buddhist Temple, located in the suburb of Gengma, Gengma County, Yunnan Province, is a Buddhist monastery of Theravada Buddhism in southern Pali language. Hanxie presided over the construction and was built by Zen Master Gengma Yatang. It is also the place where Tusi Gengma and his relatives worship Buddha, also known as Guanmen Temple. The Gengma General Buddhist Temple includes the main hall, the hall, the ordination hall, the pagoda, the monastery, the courtyard, the wall, the temple gate and other parts. The main body of the hall is a brick-wood structure. There are two rows of parallel huge wooden pillars as the main support in the hall. The outer sides of the giant pillars undertake auxiliary beams to form a partial building. The central hall and the side buildings are combined into a triple-eave building covered with blue-grey tiles. The hall is about 30 meters high, 15 meters wide and 27 meters long. The left and right corridors are about 3 meters wide, surrounded by a 1.5-meter-high low wall outside the corridor. There are also eight clay statues behind the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha at the west end of the temple. Except for the water god Wubaogu, the other eight statues are all Arhat statues. There is an additional hall outside the main entrance at the east end of the hall. In the hall, two brick pillars about 6 meters high and 6 giant wooden pillars are erected for support, and the ground is covered with blue bricks. The roof in the middle of the hall is a double eaves and a slope on one side. Above the eaves, there is a Xie Peak and two slopes. Therefore, these three slopes are just scattered between the upper eaves and the middle eaves of the main hall. In addition, the tops of the two sides of the passage hall are built with double eaves respectively, which are connected with the middle and lower eaves of the main hall. This layout makes the main hall and the hall form an overlapping and splendid appearance.

Mengding Xiacheng Dafo Temple

Nanting Art Academy

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Awa Mountain

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Tiankeng

Deep in the mountains of Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County, the Gengcang Highway winds like a ribbon through pristine monsoon rainforests. The Tiankeng resembles a green vortex carved by meteorites, preserving the secrets of crustal movements within its vertical cliffs spanning over 100 meters in diameter. This is a "living geological museum" with a vertical depth exceeding 100 meters, where tropical rainforests and underground rivers have engaged in a million-year dialogue. The main pit preserves a complete primitive ecosystem at its base, where visitors can descend along zigzagging boardwalks to observe the three-dimensional vegetation belt formed by tree ferns and staghorn ferns on the pit walls. At the underground river outlet on the pit floor, transparent blind shrimp create silver trails in shallow waters across the travertine-formed "stone coral beach." Visiting during rainy season afternoons reveals sunlight piercing through mist, refracting into shifting rainbows across moss-covered cliffs. Beyond geological exploration, you can participate in the traditional Wa mountain folk's scientific research methods: marking rare plants with hemp rope knots and learning to identify underground river directions through canopy gaps. The stargazing platform on the eastern side of the pit offers a "cave star map" experience at night—matching the Tiankeng's outline with corresponding constellation positions. Local Wa village seniors occasionally bring their homemade rice wine to share mysterious connections between the Tiankeng and the "Sigangli" creation epic. We recommend visiting the pit floor during the dry season at dawn, where orchid mantises and dead leaf butterflies perform their mimicry drama among poison arrow trees amidst the morning mist. While there are no Instagram-worthy installations here, geology enthusiasts will find pristine geological records to decipher Earth's folds—each fossilized arrow bamboo serving as a key to understanding crustal movements.

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Wengding Village

Wengding Wa is a primitive collective village located in Mengjiao Township, Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County, Lincang City. The natural scenery around the village is beautiful. Because it is basically undeveloped, it still retains the original ethnic architectural style and simple customs of the Wa people. It is a relatively well-preserved primitive group village so far. Walking into the village, it is an open singing venue. Usually, collective activities unique to the Wa ethnic group such as bullying and pulling wooden drums in the stockade are held here. The entire stockade is a bamboo and wooden house with dry columns, facing the sun and mountains, and it is scattered. The log is the skeleton that supports the house. Bamboo boards are used as the floor, wooden walls, and thatched roofs. The indigenous Wa people are hospitable and live a simple life of self-sufficiency. Whenever tourists come here, they will beat wooden drums and sing "Jia Le Jia Le Si~" to welcome them.

Gengma Mengxiang Wetland Park